Demanding Our Attention

Joseph Blenkinsopp
— University of Notre Dame
"The sadly posthumous appearance of Christian ethicist Emily Arndt's Demanding Our Attentionmarks a brave attempt, and one rare among professional ethicists, to cross over from her own discipline to that of the biblical specialist, and to do so by engaging in a close and sustained reading of one of the most famously challenging and subversive texts in the Hebrew Bible. In choosing the binding of Isaac (Genesis 22) as her case study . . . Arndt illustrates the transformative possibilities latent in the act of close, attentive, and imaginative reading of biblical narrative — in effect, a different way of doing ethics."

Jean Porter
— (from foreword) 
"This is a fully formed, sophisticated, and beautifully written book, offering an important contribution to the field of theological ethics. . . A fitting tribute to a scholarly career that was cut short all too soon."

Evangelical Quarterly
"Arndt offers an important contribution to the field of theological ethics."

Studies in Christian Ethics
"A wide-ranging book. . . . The book should be fascinating to all interested in either the Hebrew Bible or Christian ethics, and is essential reading for anyone trying to combine the two."

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
"Arndt's book is informative, thought-provoking, and an easy read."